medee

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by medee 6y ago
>Would you feel comfortable that you still have your job and your reputation after going in front of the nation and saying "I think interracial marriages should be illegal"? That's not what people are getting fired for, th
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by medee 6y ago
> Is it really a bad thing to not know algebra at the 8th grade? Knowing it is a better thing
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by medee 6y ago
Competition for reproduction and resources between groups of genetically proximate organisms is the history of "life".
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by medee 6y ago
I wonder why the real number isn't known.
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by medee 6y ago
This idea that there was historical disadvantage to the Irish comes from a single photograph of a sign that says "Irish Need Not Apply". This is the equivalent of putting an individual Tweet from 2016 saying "Kill All White
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by medee 6y ago
Another interesting stat- 55% of Harvard graduate students are Jewish. https://www.hillel.org/college-guide/list/record/harvard-uni...
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by medee 6y ago
Race isn't skin color, though [1]. Self-identified race maps to distinct genetic clusters with >99.8% accuracy [2]. 1: https://i.imgur.com/0uyOA.jpg 2: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/156256
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by medee 6y ago
Your statement is like claiming there is no scientific basis for family. Two people of the same race are more genetically related than half-siblings born to the same father and mothers of different races. The categories we call "race
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by medee 6y ago
Our knowledge of crime rates doesn't come form arrest records, but rather victims surveys. Yes, we know that certain neighborhoods/populations have higher rates of crime and not just arrests.
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by medee 6y ago
Can you link the academic, journalist, politician, author, or executive who made the argument you're quoting, that slavery is good?
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by medee 6y ago
He was probably using the word "man" in reference to Fox's biological sex rather than gender identity.
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by medee 6y ago
There should be a bounty where any prisoner who solves one of the millennium problems is granted freedom. I feel like it'd help to reduce violence and focus the purposelessness of their time into something productive to both themselve